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Is 320kbps going overboard
crashwg:
Ok, I'm ripping my CD colection to MP3... I'm trying to decide if I should go with 320kbps as a bitrate. I want my ripped collection to sound as "cd perfect" as posible so I figure 320 is as high as it goes let's try that.
So here's what I've come up with:
The average cd, ripped at 320kbps comes out to about 150mb (give or take let's say 20mb) that equals out to 6.66 cds per gig of HD space. With a 20 gig HD that's 133 CDs! I'm probably even going to have a larger HD to contain them all so I could even list a 60gig as being able to hold 400 CDs and a 120 at 800 CDs. To me that just doesn't sound too bad for space vs. sound quality.
So basically, I'm looking for someone to talk me out of it. Tell me what your argument is as to why I shouldn't do it. And don't say "because your GF will be mad that you're taking up all the HD space until you can afford a firewire/usb2 HD" because that's the only downfall that I can see.
Tilzs:
Encode at a few different bit rates.. Same tracks. Have your someone play you the rates in random order and see if you can tell the difference. Likely you'll determine that a lower rate will do.
TalkingOctopus:
For my favorite CDs that I listen to often, I can tell the difference between 128 and 320. I'd say go for the 320. I know some peope that even keep their digital music in WAV format! That may be a little extreme, but diskspace is cheap. I think that if I had a really nice sound system, I'd want my music to be CD quality.
DrewKaree:
Talking Octopus, your comparison is kinda unfair. "CD quality" is usually listed at 160. I'm betting 192 is a reasonable bitrate and you'll be hard pressed to distinguish between the two rates.
That being said, the only reason you SHOULD encode at a lower bitrate is if you foresee adding more albums and don't want to hassle with switching 'em all to another HD.
Oldskool:
Try different bitrates, and see if your ears can tell.
At 192 and over, I'd bet that you can't.
320 is overkill.
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